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...delivers 196 cu. ft. of air at the pressure of 80 lbs. per sq. in. The idea is to shoot the air through perforated tubes sunk in the water near schools of fish. Curtains of bubbles rising from the perforations look to the fish like an impassable barrier and shoo them toward the Rappahannock...
...Manchester (Conn.) High School, a student needs a B or better in all subjects to make the honor roll, and bright, spunky Charlene Southergill, 17, seemed a shoo-in. In the last quarter of her junior year this spring, she got a B in algebra, B in college-level biology, B in college-level English, and A in college-level American history. Was this enough to land her on the honor roll? Not at all: Charlene got a C in archery...
...course, select his own repertory of names. A good random beginner's list might include Hector Berlioz ("EC-tor BEAR-li-oss"), Emil Waldteufel ("VAAL-toy-ful"), Kurt Weill's Die Dreigrosch-enoper ("Dee Dry-GROSH-en-oper"), Puccini's Gianni Schicchi ("Johnny SKEE-ky"), Prokofiev's ballet, Chout ("Shoo!"), Conductor Eugen Jochum ("OY-gen YOK-hum"), Pianist Jorge Bo-let ("HOAR-hay Bo-LETT"). Advanced players will discover certain unaccountable omissions: where are Monteverdi's Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda or Composers Karl Heinz Stockhausen and Max Wilhelm Karl Vogrich...
...junior high school year, a student should have picked three colleges. If all are equally tough to enter, disaster is possible. One prospect should be tough, one medium, one a shoo-in-and all worth the price. The odds are still unpredictable. Objective as they try to be, admissions men are still partly subjective. One may like redheaded girls, another tall boys from Texas. Many will gamble on a youngster with poor marks but some special flair that can liven a college. But willingness to look hard, and travel far, usually pays off in acceptance by at least one college...
...against Stevenson, the odds were greater: Nixon trailed by 49 to 51 in the South, led by a shoo-in margin of 57 to 43 in all other parts of the country...